Posted on 09/10/2012 6:02:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Originally founded as a Roman colony in the 4th century BCE, the site of Interamna Lirenas lies in the Liri Valley in Southern Lazio, about 50 miles south of Rome itself. After it was abandoned around the year 500 CE, it was scavenged for building materials and, over time, its remains were completely lost from view. Today, the site is an uninterrupted stretch of farmland, with no recognisable archaeological features.
Now, researchers have successfully produced the first images of the ancient site, using geophysical methods that allowed them to look beneath the surface of the earth and map the layout of the entire settlement, which spans 25 hectares.
The resulting pictures have already thrown up a few surprises. Earlier scholars had previously imagined that the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas was something of a sleepy backwater, but the large marketplace and theatre instead suggest that, in fact, it was a bustling economic and social centre in its own right...
Interamna Lirenas is an enticing case study because, in spite of its size, it did not expand significantly during the high point of Rome's Imperial age, meaning that it retained much of its original colonial shape and features...
Knowing that a full-scale excavation of such a large area would be impractical, the research team decided to carry out a systematic geophysical analysis instead.
The main techniques they used were magnetometry and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). Magnetometry measures changes in the earth's magnetic field caused by different features beneath the surface, and allowed the researchers to identify the town's overall layout, many individual buildings and a wide open area in the settlement's centre -- its forum or marketplace.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
another area that was green and fertile way back
That’s the wrong title, I forgot to change it after my first attempt was not welcome on FR (source was, not just the article).
Oh. That explains. I thought I had taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque because I got directions from a rabbit...
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“the year 500 CE”
Is that BC or AD? The writer must be a Democrat./s
CE means “Common Era” and is the same as AD
Example: 2012 CE is 2012 AD
BCE means “Before Common Era” and is the same as BC
Example: 500 BCE is 500 BC
Just another way for the enlightened to remove Christ from the conversation.
It would be much more accurate to use the Jewish calendar, but we can’t have everything. ;’)
‘Earlier scholars had previously imagined that the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas was something of a sleepy backwater, but the large marketplace and theatre instead suggest that, in fact, it was a bustling economic and social centre in its own right... ‘
Those dang scholars are drinking the same water as scientists. It causes one to imagine many things that are not so.
Sorry, but I won't read anything that says, "BCE." As a Christian and an historian, I'm deeply offended.
Those crazy leftists only care about the Cairo-Rome Axis and everything else is flyover country
So, Rome had a 'burning man' event just prior to collapse?
Now something serious. How are all these towns covered up? I thought it took millions of years to make 1 inch of topsoil.
I have no clue
I appreciate what you're saying but... no. It is not the same thing.
I always like to ask the libtards who champion this date scheme "What event marks the line between BCE and CE?" It's fun.
The winds of time blow sand, dust, dirt at a rate of a few feet every hunderd or so years; a prime example of this can be found in Isreal when visiting the Crusader Castles. You can see how during unoccupied periods between Crusades that the sand built up and when the next group came into the fortifications, they literally built up from that level a newer and higher level, which was done a total of three times.
BUMP what you said. Same here.
We (real) Americans told the atheist Democrats and their global socialist community to go play with themselves when they tried to convert America to the metric system 20 years ago, so I can't understand why so many Americans rolled over when these same atheists came back and dumped centuries of tradition and forced this "common era" crap down their throats.
“What event marks the line between BCE and CE?”
Simply brilliant
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t see any identification for the image. That can’t be the town. A theater or forum perhaps?
So, if you don’t, how did you know it was in the text?
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